Stories Collection

  1. And take it hide it now for when we most need The one improbable vague hope that fre...
  2. Abstract Objective To investigate how the prenatal diagnosis of a sex chromosome an...
  3. SHARON MARCUS, Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and Londo...
  4. APART from kilted singer Harry Lauder, how many Scottish music hall turns could you n...
  5. A list of mortgages filed with the Oklahoma County Clerk's office is published daily ...
  6. A list of mortgages filed with the Oklahoma County Clerk's office is published daily ...
  7. A list of Warranty Deeds filed with the Oklahoma County Clerk's office is published d...
  8. A list of mortgages filed with the Oklahoma County Clerk's office is published daily ...
  9. A list of Warranty Deeds filed with the Oklahoma County Clerk's office is published d...
  10. But the empty moment threatens to be every moment. "The fact is," Pascal wrote, "that...
  11. A great part of the appeal of Eastern thought is the prospect of the realization of t...
  12. Not that anyone intentionally disregards the good. Among spiritual atheists can be de...
  13. Enlightenment, in a way that cannot be repressed (nor perhaps should it be), comes to...
  14. Yet the impossibility of a way does nothing to diminish the necessity of a way, since...
  15. Why? Consider this troubling quotation from a talk of Jiddhu Krishnamurti: Meditati...
  16. And Siddhartha said with a smile: "I do not know. I have never been a drinker. But th...
  17. Yet if so, the actual value of meditation will far more often consist in beautifying ...
  18. Shin'ichi Hisamatsu: That is correct. Bernard Phillips: And if you do not follow any...
  19. The negation of all human and divine resources, and the consequent necessity to crush...
  20. In a 1958 conversation with Paul Tillich, Hisamatsu observes that the reason most peo...
  21. U. G. Krishnamurti [the "other" Krishnamurti] explains in the most detail: There is ...
  22. 9. Meditation as not being able to evade the problem, even through meditation How to...
  23. . . . How does one get into-or actualize oneself as-the koan or problem? Well, you ke...
  24. The "method," insofar as one can speak of method, consists simply in not running from...
  25. The fourth possibility-to deny the existence of the negation-is no longer available t...
  26. The spiritual quest either culminates in liberation or continues on as the struggle f...
  27. For the negating power, uncrushed, reasserts itself, however many of the manifest for...
  28. 13. Shattering the impasse I once said to DeMartino: "Hisamatsu says 'all routes mus...
  29. DeMartino once said the greatest sentence he ever wrote was: "It is not that the ego ...
  30. Endless bouts, between the counterforce of brightness-pleasure-calm-energy and the he...
  31. ... It was in addition the rohatsu sesshin [meditation retreat], the most demanding o...
  32. Eternal Life * Absolute Existence * Absolute Value The poem Hisamatsu composed on hi...
  33. Even before I attained kensh?? [awakening; literally, seeing one's (true) nature], I ...
  34. It is said that Plotinus experienced the ecstasy of "One" four times in his life. But...
  35. As is maintained by the expression, "One cutting cuts all things; one attainment is t...
  36. Stephen Jourdain, ex-real estate agent, owner of a bed and breakfast in Corsica, in h...
  37. While alive be a dead man ? thoroughly dead then, do as you will all will be well7...
  38. I met Hisamatsu once in my life-he was eightyeight; I've never seen anyone so delight...
  39. 4. Pascal, Pens?©es, number 136. 5. Pascal, Pens?©es, number 137. 6. Pascal, Pens?©...
  40. 29. U. G. Krishnamurti, The Mystique of Enlightenment, ed. Rodney Arms (Boulder: Sent...
  41. 42. DeMartino, "The Human Situation and Zen Buddhism" (revised version), in Buddhist ...
  42. 62. Hisamatsu reading from his autobiographical account in "Sh??zan-Roshi and Contemp...
  43. Copyright World Poetry, Incorporated Jul/Aug 2006 Provided by ProQuest Information an...
  44. New Genres 1 A witness claims to have seen a spirit. From this premise, a ragged b...
  45. I. In the nursing home in Iowa, where he had-against the odds-stayed demonstrative...
  46. IN MY LAST COLUMN (MARCH/APRIL 2006), in exploring the complicated interactions of wi...
  47. Now in the suburbs and the falling light I followed him, and now down sandy road Wh...
  48. MY MIND, ANCIENT COMPUTER, STEERS my pen in a quirky, or dodgy description of my stud...
  49. ONE OF THE MANY MEASURES OF AMBITION in poetry is the extension of the medium. One th...
  50. for Rachel Jacoff ONE OP THE GREATEST RESOURCES OF world poetry is a kind of poem th...
  51. DEAR EDITORS, Although Dana Levin assembles most of the data she needs to prove othe...
  52. I sat in different places with different winds: at the top of the drive where the blu...
  53. The slight scrape and click as her coffee cup's set on the counter suggests tumblers ...
  54. Satyr Song When I was a child, I moved my pillow to a different part of the bed each ...
  55. "It is terrible, but not very terrible." -Ursula LeGuin To leave your only child wait...
  56. When I sit down to dinner, that wife of mine she comes and stands beside me and she s...
  57. The bunting of the side stage curls up just as Cassandra's throne is torn apart like ...
  58. A Column I. WELDON KEES (1914-1955) WAS NEARLY a teenager living in Nebraska when Fra...
  59. On the verandah, fat Scotch in hand, trying not to make sense of another day in Nadav...
  60. She asked me to go out into the hallway. I went out into the hallway. She asked me to...
  61. I'd forgotten how fast it happens, the blush of fear and the feeling of helpless infa...
  62. She said she could not Love him because He was ever upon the gad. Copyright World P...
  63. SARAH KANNING: You've been at work on a new collection of poems. Is it too early to t...
  64. Looking at a cow one morning last month, I wondered if the congregation of flies on t...
  65. When the bones of my arm were emptied I began to hover, a man becoming his own kite. ...
  66. More than thirty years ago and financed on half a shoestring, Sam Hamill co-founded C...
  67. That tree was a teacher, whatever the weather everyday birds, hawks, and osprey neste...
  68. In the Studio FOR SOME TIME I'VE HAD A FANTASY ABOUT having a studio in which to purs...
  69. For years I lived in a kind Of wistful song world where One foot was always out The d...
  70. The flock of pigeons rises over the roof, and just beyond them, the shimmering asphal...
  71. When they say it's not about the money, it's about the money. -Anon. By the turn of t...
  72. Great-Uncle Eddie Came to see us in the country. Eddie looked exactly Like Fred Astai...
  73. Twenty-three years I've lived with the skulls. I met them in Sfakion, Elvis Costello ...
  74. My former father-in-law Frank Was getting his third star as a General And the rest of...
  75. I'm alone on my porch which is alone on the mountain which is alone in the sky. All t...
  76. There are principles I would die for, but not to worship this God or that. To live I'...
  77. Language was not my servant the day I slapped my mother back, she had me up against a...
  78. "She came to me with two day lilies which she put in a sort of childlike way into my ...
  79. ... she became famous for her wit, her brains and her ugliness. Simple and frugal in ...
  80. Because he would not abandon the flock for a lost sheep after the others had bedded d...
  81. This morning when the chill that rises up from the ground is warmed, the snow is melt...
  82. It's my last day on earth and a guy in a white coat I hope to Christ is really a doct...
  83. We beg differently in Bombay than New York. I sense there's no link, between days, be...
  84. "I want a hero: an uncommon want..." -Byron, Don Juan A Common Satyr and poet, I want...
  85. A Column THIS IS THE SECOND OF A THREE-PART column that explores the relationship bet...
  86. It comes on. Comes on with the word, A doctor's word, The doctor saying cancer. "But ...
  87. She liked to get high and go away. She liked to get very high and go Very far away. S...
  88. In a Woody Alien film A physicist Played by Jack Warden Says to Sam Waterston, Both o...
  89. A scent rather quietly loves the library. Readers look up: a life of paper inside the...
  90. Was she drunk? She didn't seem drunk, had only staggered a little, stumbling over the...
  91. It has been a nice vacation In New York City, Sitting in the bathroom, with two Silen...
  92. Someone is always dying of cancer, Someone is always reading The New York Times. Afte...
  93. It's the aftermath of surrender: after the wound big as the sky. All the sentries bow...
  94. 1 The only thing that was is gone, as blood is gone, as spit gone from the tongue, fr...
  95. An aura survives the discipline of a flower, goes back to the fertile Tree, knowing y...
  96. Adrift on his back in the tub, the boy detects the tip of his pre-pubescent prick as ...
  97. In the end There will be no witnesses, As far as we know. But there are no guarantees...
  98. There are so many types of "personal" in poetry. The "I" is the thread, of course, is...
  99. APz A Column "It's not possible to be sated with the world. I'm still insatiable," he...
  100. Red-eyed men and harridans-Cain and his brood trudge across the desert waste, lugging...
  101. In December nineteen ninety-nine we stood on the rim of a snow-white crater. Who's th...
  102. My father first threw me across water, an infant, pinned to a javelin. In the warrior...
  103. The apricot light of dying day, Pungent and bitter under a pale day-moon. The sun set...
  104. TO THE EDITORS, Dear Editors, I would like to point out a mistake that was printed in...
  105. The last time I saw him awake and talking I tricked my aging father. He was on a Jewi...
  106. APr In the Studio I SOMETIMES THINK THE STORY OF DANA?‹ IS about money. Father ineptl...
  107. "There are blows in life, so powerful . . . I don't know!" -C?©sar Vallejo, trans. Cl...
  108. Then Jane says: there is an invisible thread between Our hearts that can never be bro...
  109. JAMES WRIGHT A Special APr Supplement An Introduction to Twelve Letters by James Wrig...
  110. The city will appear before you as otherworldly, inviting only to those who suffer. T...
  111. to Isaiah As light stripes a tree-trunk, heat streams through the ashes, steam puffs ...
  112. All night the sound had come back again, and again falls this quiet, persistent rain....
  113. The sisters are wailing, quite beside themselves with something new. The pale Christ,...
  114. They are swelling by leaps and bounds, the ranks of the dead Peter the tailor, and Mr...
  115. AN INTERIOR SILENCE PUNCTUATED BY BIRDcalls or by a dog clicking from carpet to carpe...
  116. The heart will never stop protesting against the rain. Lovers will never stop complai...
  117. She says she wants to leave except her bones are dissolving in her back so she can't ...
  118. Having dined at the ferry, I crossed the river into Georgia . . . -William Bartram Th...
  119. Like a vulture to a graveyard. Like a Brueghel to a red or a Guernica to a black or a...
  120. When I hear that God is the same as existence, I fall silent, but I keep turning my e...
  121. My soul is a mind and a meander, a Mrs. Luxe. Little Spartan boy, release the animal ...
  122. Those were the two deepest byes I ever heard we practically barked. Thanks for the ph...
  123. (from The Decalogue, VII) Late September and the sun slouches against the house like ...
  124. My trees are gone yellow to the East. That's wrong. That's the afterlife, Or Argicida...
  125. The water is taller than itself, Covering spirits of the air beneath. And so the land...
  126. Most of what happens to them doesn't take up space but is a kind of music that can be...
  127. The Walgravian ancestors step inside Trinity Church. The tenors, the horns, the sopra...
  128. "It was now late; Goethe gave me his dear hand, and I departed." -Johann Peter Eckerm...
  129. The young are troubled bearing their sexual freight: its unwieldy weightiness charges...
  130. Yep. Romanticism's usually OK, though it shows up at parties too early, hogs the cana...
  131. The candles are forgetting how to light the holes in our bodies. Still, they dine on ...
  132. Gear-grinding, sure, but the woman asleep in 4F sees the monster spawned by her boss'...
  133. In the alleys below her heart, a drain, as if inside there's a city, blood gathering ...
  134. THE IDEA OF "THE REAL" HAS ALWAYS HAD an allure for Americans. "Get real," we sayand ...
  135. Even in juiciest REM sleep the sailors don't dare let go. They hear the great yawn th...
  136. I know what's going to happen to those two plastic produce bags of crushed ice I perc...
  137. "Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled." -Emerson Heaven's muffled, but children a...
  138. The coordinates of this position might be ill defined, its fragility or strength unas...
  139. I stared at the ruin, the powder of the dead now beneath ground, a crowd assembled an...
  140. father to son The pain makes me tired, as if I could fight it, as if I can't not figh...
  141. for PML "Hi Sweetie. Coming home," was the last message she left on your home phone, ...
  142. C?‰SAR VALLEJO'S FIRST BOOK, LOS HERALDOS NEGROS (The Black Heralds, 1918), marks the...
  143. Fat black bumblebees fucking in our yard orgiastic they knot up, five or six like a b...
  144. (from The Decalogue, Vl) August, heat a shroud over the city, the ring of ozone like ...
  145. THIS IS THE FIKST OF A THREE-PART COLUMN that will explore the relationship between p...
  146. I am eating the wing of a honeybee, my tepid life is a glass of tea. Remember the sou...
  147. The donkey has led us through so many cultures! Virgin after virgin has been born! Fr...
  148. Above birch trees, the wires make the same hum my legs make crossed over one another,...
  149. It's strange how sometimes you wake up in the middle of the night Fast asleep someone...
  150. "All these things the creator told me in Alabama," Sun Ra Mariposa, what a clean word...
  151. translated from the German by Jack Hirschman Let the night alone speak before the eye...
  152. My father stands in a wheatfield with his back to me. He's intent on distance and the...
  153. Nostalgia for automats Nostalgia for feelings we never had The feelings of Kitty Foyl...
  154. QUINCYTROUPE HAS BEEN FEATURED ON two PBS television series on poetry. In 1991, he re...
  155. FICTION WRITERS ON POETRY ABOUT TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, I DREAMED I was a poet. I reme...
  156. In the Studio ONCE I LIVED IN RURAL NEW YORK IN A farmhouse built in 1842 with two Fr...
  157. My mind is not quiet. I do not think of you dead. Many who read this do not know you....
  158. LOUISE BOGAN WAS, ACCORDING TO THE English poet W. H. Auden, one of "only four Americ...
  159. the world is boring I'm sorry you had to see it a lousy place lonely as a toilet in t...
  160. To lay your head on a pillow And fall asleep on that pillow And asleep to dream Of st...
  161. having pondered a limit the prophet stretches out and strokes himself the body wants ...
  162. for Ren?© Crevel I went down a strange street where blonde kids pissed on their swadd...
  163. I desire that the water lose its river-bed. I desire that the wind lose its valleys. ...
  164. Here is a sponge filled with wine And here you are seated upon it. Pick up your penci...
  165. Chicago The els sound like donut batter dropped into oil In the prairie there's a cow...
  166. I have lost myself in the sea many times with my ear full of fresh-cut flowers, with ...
  167. A Column KNOCK KNOCK II. KNOCK KNOCK: THE Sequel. Son of Knock Knock. Knock Knock Cli...
  168. I shall never reach Danville, Ohio, Danville distant and lonely. Black car, small moo...
  169. at some point everyone loses count do not be afraid of the escape of the cows not one...
  170. Through a golden window Apple and pineapple enter Insect and fish Bird and shadow Don...
  171. On the branches of a laurel tree I saw two dark doves. One was the sun. the other the...
  172. I rub my walls down. You rub your walls down. The old stains come clean. You're sore,...
  173. The old back for more the young their first time Trees grow high as the moon Age like...
  174. I want to sleep the dream of apples, to remove myself from the tumult of cemeteries. ...
  175. Where rue de la Verrerie meets rue St-Martin Was a shop that sold molasses One April ...
  176. New York's dawn has four columns of mud and a hurricane of black doves that splash in...
  177. to Eug??ne and Lucienne de Kermadec my tomb my pretty tomb will have glossy paint wit...
  178. Peace comes after the war. Not before-we didn't know there was peace. We weren't sure...
  179. To see you naked is to recall the Earth. The Earth, smooth, without horses. The Earth...
  180. If, like the winds on the face of a compass There is meaning to space and time, If th...
  181. To THE EDITORS, I appreciated John Yau's article about Bruce Connor for the way it of...
  182. Coming down hillsides in spring At the time of day when dew glistens on the spiderweb...
  183. Be quiet-a shadow is singing. A shadow on a yellow wall is singing about time, and a ...
  184. It was my ancient voice unaware of dense bitter juices Licking my feet under the dren...
  185. FORCE-MARCHED BY THE NAZIS RETREATing from the concentration camp at Floha, arriving ...
  186. No time alone sun rain Can't talk, can't see out, can't even see to any depth down! W...
  187. In the Studio IN THE PHOTOGRAPH I'M sitting in the center of the room, at a table pil...
  188. unconditional galaxies, look at me look at me! faraway animal made out of dots up in ...
  189. Whenever there is water someone is drowning -Robert BIy Friends, consider that we hav...
  190. Scraps of hard feelings left on the floor winter material But out the window sun on t...
  191. Postcard from the Trembly Bird I do not want the ham I want to be heard I want the wo...
  192. Mattress on the floor My protectors blue Mary and little Buddha two incense sticks st...
  193. You didn't know what the hands that held your hands would do to me, my mother, and si...
  194. I needed a friend but I was in the other room -not just the other room, another frame...
  195. I drive by this part of the island where dead cars marry beach grass and washtub hand...
  196. Your granddaughter's sorrows, no. My sorrows, your end of life sorrows, no. I couldn'...